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OVERVIEW
The Mental Hygiene Legal Service (MHLS) provides legal services, advice and assistance to persons receiving care or alleged to be in need of care at inpatient and community-based facilities for the mentally disabled.
Created in 1964 and organized under Mental Hygiene Law Article 47, MHLS represents such persons in judicial and administrative proceedings concerning admission, retention, transfer, treatment and guardianship. In addition to handling judicial proceedings, MHLS provides advice and representation regarding standards of care and other matters affecting the civil liberties of persons receiving care at facilities for the mentally disabled. MHLS can be assigned as counsel or court evaluator in Mental Hygiene Law Article 81 guardianship proceedings for persons in any type of facility or in the community (link to Counsel to Children Webpage--Guardianship section tbd). Finally, Article 10 of the Mental Hygiene Law institutionalizes MHLS as counsel of choice in all sex offender civil management cases.
MHLS for the First Judicial Department covers New York County and Bronx County and maintains eight field offices in the two counties in addition to its Departmental Office.
FIELD OFFICES
New York County (Manhattan)
BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER
27th Street & 1st Avenue
Room 19E1
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 562-4961
Fax: (212) 779-9381
HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER
506 Lenox Avenue
Women's Pavilion, Room 527
New York, NY
Phone: (212) 939-3045 or (646) 672-6180
ISSUES CONCERNING THE MENTALLY RETARDED & DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED
75 Morton Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 627-0090
Fax: (212) 645-0753
KIRBY FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC CENTER
600 East 125th Street
Ward's Island, New York 10035
Phone: (646) 672-6880
Fax: (646) 672-6954
MANHATTAN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER (MPC)
Meyer 10A, Room 62
600 East 125th Street
Ward's Island, NY 10035
Phone: (646) 672-6180
Fax: (646) 672-6658
METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL CENTER (METROPOLITAN)
1901 First Avenue, Room 5M31
New York, NY 10029
Phone: (212) 423-6077
Fax: (212) 876-1382
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF HOSPITALS COVERED BY MHLS NY COUNTY FIELD OFFICES
August Eichorn- MPC
Beth Israel Medical Center- Bellevue
Cabrini- Bellevue
Columbia Presbyterian- Metropolitan
Gracie Square Hospital- Metropolitan
Lenox Hill Hospital- Metropolitan
Manhattan V.A. Hospital- Bellevue
Mt. Sinai- Metropolitan
New York State Psychiatric Institute- MPC
New York University (Tisch Hospital)- Bellevue
North General Hospital- Kirby
Paye Whitney Clinic/New York Presbyterian Hospital- Kirby
Roosevelt Hospital- MPC
St. Luke's Hospital- MPC
St. Vincent's Hospital- 75 Morton
Terence Cardinal Cooke (Specialty Hospital)- 75 Morton
Bronx County
BRONX PSYCHIATRIC CENTER (BPC)
Thompson Building, 7th Floor
1500 Waters Place
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: (718) 862-5140
Fax: (718) 792-3154
JACOBI HOSPITAL
Jacobi Medical Center, Bldg. 1
8th Floor, Room 8E21
Pelham Parkway South & Eastchester Road
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: (718) 918-6742
Fax: (718) 918-6698
NORTH CENTRAL BRONX HOSPITAL
3424 Kossuth Avenue
Bronx, NY 10467
Phone: (718) 862-5140 or (718) 862-5140
Fax: (718) 519-2397
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF HOSPITALS COVERED BY MHLS BRONX COUNTY FIELD OFFICES
Bronx Children's Psych. Center- BPC
Bronx Developmental Center- BPC
Bronx Lebanon- BPC
Bronx V.A. Hospital Kingsbridge- Jacobi
Lincoln Hospital- BPC
Montefiore- BPC
Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center- BPC
Rikers Island- BPC
St. Barnabas- BPC
Other MHLS Departmental Offices
MHLS, SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT:
170 Old Country Road
Mineola, New York 11501
Sidney Hirschfeld, Director
Phone: (516) 746-4545
Fax: (516) 746-4372
Counties Covered: Dutchess, Kings, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, Westchester
MHLS, THIRD JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT:
40 Steuben Street, Suite 501
Albany, New York 12207
Sheila E. Shea, Director
Phone: (518) 474-4453
Fax: (518) 473-5849
Counties Covered: Albany, Broome, Chemung, Chenengo, Chuyler, Clinton, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Madison, Montgomery, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schnectady, Schoharie, St. Lawrence, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren, Washington
MHLS, FOURTH JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT:
Administration Offices
50 East Avenue- Suite 402
Rochester, New York 14604
Emmett Creahan, Director
Phone: (585) 530-3050
Fax: (585) 530-3079
Counties Covered: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orleans, Oswego, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming, Yates
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